Sheet-registering device



E. R. LINEBAUGH. SHEET REGISTERING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I7, 1921.

Patented Dec. -6, 1921 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1. 1

E. R. LINEBAUGH.

SHEET REGISTERING DEVICE.

APPLlCATlON FILED FEB-17,1921.

1,399,064, Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

EDWARD a. LINEBAUGH. or ZBARBERTON, OHIO,

assreivoia TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF GI-IIOAGOyIIiLINOIS, A CORPORATION GF ILLINOIS.

SHEET-REGISTERING DEVICE.

T 0 (ZZZ whom it may concern:

c it known that I, EDWARD R. LINE BAUGH, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheet-RegisteringDevices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sheet registering mechanisms for Gordon printing presses and the like; and particularly to that. typeof such mechanisms in which is included a registering arm which is mounted and operated to effect limited endwise and lateral movement of the successive sheets imposed on the platen, and accurately position them against end and side stops on the platen. Heretofore two interchangeable registering devices, adapted respectively for right and for left hand shifting of-the sheets, have been provided; either of such-devices being employed as occasion required. a e

The object of my invention is to provide a unitary reversible device, of simple and efficient construction, which can be readily applied to the press in such a manner as to effect the requisite registry movement of the sheet either toward the left or the right hand side of the platen, as desired. a

Accordingly my invention comprises various novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings- Figure l is a plan of a platen,and adjuncts, equipped with a reversible sheet registering device embodying my invention, said .11 and 12 designate the device being mounted to shift the sheet from right to left of the platen, and the gripper bar being shown in down position.

Fig. 2 is avertical section on the line 2'2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to F ig; 1, but showing the gripper bar in raised position and the registering device shifted toward the left of the platen.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing the sheet-registering device in reversed position to shift the sheet from left to right.

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the detachable members ofthe' registering device.

Referring to thedrawings, 10 designates the platen of an ordinary Gordon press, and end and side stops, respectively, for the sheets of paper imposed as th plates: 1 i I Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 17,1921.

I way'between said pivot holes.

- the screw 23 entered in Patented Dec. 6, 1921. Serial no. 445,596.

13 designates the oscillatory gripper bar mounted at one end of the platen, and 14 designates spaced apart gripper ried by said bar andadapted to be swung thereby at intervals upon and from the successlve sheets on the platen, as usual.

Fast onthe end of the platen, adjacent the gripper bar, is a adapted to be detachably supported an oscillatory head 16. This head, in its preferred form, comprises a body of suitable size having two pivot holes 17 spaced apart 1n a line extending intermediate of the ends and transversely of the head, and having a pin 18 and a slotted extension 19 at the rebracket 15 upon which is A shape and spective ends of the head and in a line extending longitudinally of the head and mid-. In the res ent instance one end of the pin is inserted into a suitably-disposed. hole in the head and detachably held in place by means of a screw 18. The head is adapted to be detachably and pivotally mounted on the bracket by means such as a screw 20 passed through-one or the other of the holes 17 and screwed into a tapped hole 27 in the bracket, whereby the extension 19 will project toward the right or the left hand side of the platen as desired. The pin 18 extends loosely through a transverse eye 21 in an arm 22 so as to have a freely movable connection which arm is adapted to be detachably secured to the gripper bartby means such as a suitably-disposed screw-hole 24 in the bar. When the parts are thus assembled the pin tion between the arm and the head areso positioned in relation to the aXis of oscillation of the gripper bar, that the eye moves in a short-arc of a circle, the pin moving freely in the eye as the position of the latter is shifted. Hence, the head, during the forwith the latter,

and eye connecthen in the back stroke of said bar the head 1 is returned to its original position.

The gripper bar is provided with at least two screw-holes 24 spaced apart correspondingly with the respective locations of the pin 18 as prescribed by the right or left'hand disposition of the head on the bracket 15, and hence the arm 22 can be supported onithe bar in engaging relation to said pin accord,

ing to the position occupied by the. head. frevi oe s u af rded for th m}? ing the active movement of the gripper bar,

as desired. In Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the position of the head for left hand registration is shown, and in Fig. 4 the position of the head.

for right hand registration illustrated.

The extension 19 of the head is slotted, as at 25, to receive a registering arm 26 which, being suitably held in the extension, overhangs theplaten in a path between the end stops llwhen the head is mounted on the bracket; said arm thus partaking of the oscillatory motion of the head 16. The arm 26 is. detachably and'adjustably held in the slotted extension 19 by means, preferably, of a suitably-disposed set-screw 19. The forward end of the arm 26 is provided with spring clip 28 which is formed and arranged to grasp and hold the end of a sheet of pa per (a) inserted therebetweenand supported on the platen, as usual; whereby during the movement of the arm toward the right or and right or left hand registration.

the left hand side of the platen, as predetermined by the particular pivotal mounting of the head on the bracket 15, the sheet is bodily shifted in relation to the end and side stops in a manner to effect the requisite endwise I. have shown the bracket 15 as provided with an additional screw hole 27 which is suitably spaced from the hole 27, and the bar 13 asprovided with an additional pair of screw holes 24 in proper relation to the hole 27, so that the head and its appurtenances can be set at another position on the bracket and gripper bar in order to operate upon sheetsofa differentsize, whether the device be positioned 'for either right or left hand registration. Of course the numher and position of the correlated holes in the bracket and bar may be increased to en able the positioning of the device at various adjacent points effective to accommodate sheets of various sizes, as occasion may requlre. 9 A

From the foregoing it will-be seen that my invention provides a simple reversible device which can be applied with faclhty to a press in such a manner as to accomplish either right or left hand registration of the successive sheets imposed on the platen, desired; the requisite operation of the device being predetermined and effected by ro erlv )ositioninq the head 16 on the bracket that the extensionilil of the head will extend therefrom toward'the right or left hand side of the platen; by applying the registering arm to said extension 1n such a manner that the clip of the arm willfbepositioned to receive and grasp the proXi-j mate end of the sheet, and by properly po sitioning the arm 22 on the gripperbar, as,

' previously explained.

Without limiting my invention to the de tails of construction disclosed, excepting as expressly defined 1n the appended" claims,

ivhatI claim isi press having a platen and 1;. In a printing sheet stops thereon and having a vibratory gripper bar cooperating with said platen, a unitary reversible sheet registering device comprising an oscillatory member having,

the opposite end of'said member and either i of two 10031310118011 the bar as required by the pivotal mounting of the said member, whereby the said member, arm andconnecting means can be associated and mounted in operative relation to each other to effect either right or left handlregistry movement of the said arm. v i

'2; ln'a printing press having a platen and sheet stops thereon and having a vibratory gripper bar cooperating with said platen, a reversible sheet registering device comprising an oscillatory head, means for detach" ably and pivotally supporting said head at either of two spaced-apart portionsthereof adjacent one end of the platen, a sheet re ceiving and registering arm detachably secured to said head laterally of the pivotal portions of the latter, an element movably connected with, the said head beyond the opposite side of said pivotal portions, and

means for detachably supporting said element at either of two-spaced-apart locations on the gripper bar. I

In a printing presshaving a platen and sheet stops thereonand having a vibratory gripper bar cooperating with said plateme reversible sheet registering device 1,compris ing a pivot supporting element arrangedat one end of the platen,.an oscillatoryhead having therein two spaced-apart pivot holes in a line extending intermediate the ends and; transversely of the head, and having a proj ecting'member and registeringarm support at the respective ends of the head and in a lineextending longitudinally of the head and midway between said pivot holes, a pivot adapted to be passed through either of said holes and engaged withsaid pivot supporting element, a sheet registering arm detachably secured to the arm support of the oscillatory head, an arm loosely coupled-to said "projeating-member, and means for detachably connecting said arm to the gripper bar at either oftwo spaced-apart locations on-thexlatteri I SignedQat Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, this 9 dayyof February, A. 'D. 1921. i i

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